The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-26
Losses by Fire.

Fire on Saturday destroyed fourteen
dwellings in the village of Laconi, Warren
county, Iowa.
The little town of CRANKY, four miles from
Neosho, Missouri, was nearly all destroyed by
| fire on Saturday. About 100 stores and
dwellings were burned and the loss estimated
at 100000.
Miller's livery stable, in Chicago, was barn
| ed on Saturday morning, with 20 horses
Mrs. Miller was severely injured by leaping
from window, and John Becker, hostler,
was badly scorched.
A despatch from Seymour, Indiana, says
the forests in the western part OF jackson
county took FIRE again on Friday oflast week
and are still burning. The people are power.
less on account of continuous high winds and
no water.
The Goodlander FIGURING Mills and Eeva-
tor in Fort Scott, Kansas, togeth ar with $780,
600 bushels of wheat, were burned on Satnr-
day. Loss, 100000; insurance, $4,000.
Adjoining buildings were damaged to the ex-
tent of 200.
Twelve hundred bales of cotton on the new
wharf in Galveston, Texas, were burned on
Sunday. Loss, $40, 900; fully insured. About
the same time FIVE fiat cars, with $50 bales of
cotton, in the same city were burned, causing
loss OF Slo,OOO.
A fire in Mound City, Illinois, on Monday,
DESTROYED So buildings, covering two blocks,
and including three dry goods stores, two
saloons, two hotels, the Patriot office and q
number of dwellings. The loss is estimated
at $50, 900 insurance, $40. 900. A eolored man
was arrested charged with the incendiarism.
The fire which destroyed the main building
| of the winter quarters of Barnum & Bailey S
circus, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on Sum
day night, also burned four elephants, five
lions. seven leopards, six panthers, four kan
garoos, six horses and large number OF
smaller animals. The sacred white elephant
was one of those burned. Mr.. Barnum esti-
mates the loss at from S700,0 to $3.50, 900,
and the insurance at less than 100000
A despatch from Anna, Illinois, on We'd
nesday says the forest fires are still raging in
that vicinity. The huge winds on Saturday
scattered them over much larger territory
than formerly, and it is said to be almost i'm
possible to check them. Several farm build
| ings have been burned. Bridges, trees and
telegraph poles on the lines of both the Hi
nois Central and Mobile and Ohio Railroads
have been burned and traffic is considerably
DELAYED. It is stated that the woods are on
fire for radius of fifty miles in every direc-
ton from Cairo, but no damage is reported
beyond the burning of few fences and some
ungathered corn. The smoke from the burn.
ing forest is very dense and interrupts navi-
CATION on the river to a great extent.
The forest fires continue in the country
around Memphis. Many gin houses have
been burned in the districts of Mississippi and
Arkansas, bordering on the river. Several
trestles on the Kansas City Railroad have also
been destroyed, and communication with
St. Louis is now made via Forest City, Ar
kansas Steamers have ceased to run on the
river at night, owing to dense smoke, which
prevails from Vicksburg TO q distance OF about
600 miles northward. A wind storm prevail
ed on Saturday, which, it is feared, must have
caused the destruction of many dwellings OF
planters, especially in Arkansas, but days
must elapse before anything can be learned.
Prayers for rain were offered in nearly all the
churches of Memphis on Sunday.